I watched people all day destroy Chocolate Lake Beach by leaving bottles and trash strewn all over. I actually called the by-law officer, but I guess he never came. Day off I guess. Then around dusk, one regular fella came along and started picking it all up. I could hear him cursing across the Lake. Thank you, secret park cleaner upper, you’re a better man than me. —Chocolate Lake Resident
This article appears in May 20-26, 2010.


ok, now I’m not so upset I didn’t get to go yesterday…
people can be real pigs sometimes…
1 good guy will always outshine 20 assholes, any day of the week….
HRM employees (Public Works or Park Patrol) work on the holiday who should have been there to deal with it. No excuse for a no show.
Glad to see a nice guy step up. Too bad you didn’t go help him – just a thought.
I almost stepped on broken glass with my bare feet! There was broken glass everywhere. People pissing in the lake, you know they just don’t care. I couldn’t take the smell, couldn’t take the noise, couldn’t go to another lake, guess I had no choice.